photo credit: Bucharest – Smârdan Street – (license) In 2008, while working for an Irish company under contract with the Irish Parliament, Bogdan Fireteanu was called into a meeting and told that he needed to build 50 blogs as soon as possible. That was the day he discovered WordPress. Over the next eight years, Fireteanu would become more deeply involved …
3 Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader
Discover the three-step journey to organically growing your thought/industry leadership role. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Hiding Your WordPress Login Page from Hackers with Code
There are 40 million brute force attacks on websites every day, so it’s highly likely your site will succumb to an attack. One relatively easy way to protect your site is to hide your login page from hackers. Making it harder for hackers to find the location of your login page file means there’s less chance they can attempt …
Ulysses 2.6 Released, Users Can Now Publish Posts to WordPress
Based in Leipzig, Germany, The Soulmen is a company made up of a small team of people who develop exclusively for Apple devices. One of the products the company develops is called Ulysses. Ulysses is a text editor that’s available on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The company has released version 2.6 which adds the ability to publish posts to …
How to Change Your WordPress File and Directory Structure
Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your site’s defenses. So in this …
9 Ways to Protect Users and Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Site
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. It happens. But when the mistake occurs within a website that you put a lot of time and effort into building, it can be frustrating to go back and re-do your work, no matter how minor the issue. As a WordPress developer, you know the platform inside and out. You’re also familiar with …
Quickly Migrate Content From One WordPress Site to Another With WPSiteSync
There are a number of plugins available that allow you to migrate WordPress sites but many of them require access to the database. A new plugin called WPSiteSync by ServerPress, LLC, enables you to quickly migrate content from one WordPress site to another without touching the database. WPSiteSync is freely available from the WordPress plugin directory. To use it, both the …
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Gain a Competitive Advantage
If you want to build a company that no longer needs to go head to head with others, you need to build leverage. View original post at Entrepreneur…
JavaScript for WordPress Developers: Getting Started With jQuery
jQuery is a popular open source JavaScript library that enables you to make websites interactive and create animations. It was designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML and is widely used, with installation on 65% of the top 10 million highest-trafficked sites on the web. This is the second post in our four-part series focusing on JavaScript for WordPress …
BuddyPress Contributors are Building a New Template Pack
In 2013, BuddyPress introduced its first template pack, BP Legacy, in the 1.7 release along with theme compatibility. This major project milestone made BuddyPress compatible with nearly every WordPress theme, freeing sites from the requirement of using a BuddyPress-specific theme. BP Legacy has served theme developers well in customizing BuddyPress, but contributors are working on a new project to modernize …









